Chapter Summaries

Han Xiaoxiao suspected Hela might be the monster she had been searching for, but turned her attention to Qian Lan and the others when Qian Lan returned. Meanwhile, Qin Fengfeng and Hela sneaked into the building and followed a server toward the top floor, planning to slip into Gu Gongming’s room.

• Han Xiaoxiao recognized Hela’s resemblance to her enemy, HeLa Cell, and prepared to fight her.
• Qian Lan returned and told Han Xiaoxiao, Xiao Liu, and the robot that Gu Gongming had not answered yet and wanted them to come talk to him.
• The guard received orders to let the group in and personally led them inside.
• Qin Fengfeng seized the chance to enter with Hela while the guard was away.
• When a server asked which room they had reserved, Hela requested the most luxurious room, and the server led them toward the top floor.
• Qin Fengfeng praised Hela and whispered that they would sneak away and enter Gu Gongming’s room to interview him.

Qin Fengfeng and Hela slipped away from the hotel waitress to investigate, but Hela disappeared into a ventilation duct. Meanwhile, Qian Lan and her companions tried to recruit Gu Gongming into the Special Extermination Squad, and Han Xiaoxiao challenged him over his decision to abandon the fight.

• Qin Fengfeng pretended to feel ill and led Hela away from the waitress toward the bathroom.
• Qin Fengfeng discovered that Hela was missing and searched the bathroom stalls, unaware that Hela was crawling through a ventilation duct as a shapeless mass of scarlet flesh.
• Gu Gongming drank alone in his room, recalled a figure lying in blood, and smashed his wineglass against the window.
• Qian Lan, Xiao Liu, Han Xiaoxiao, a robot, and an electric woman entered Gu Gongming's room and asked him to join the Special Extermination Squad.
• Gu Gongming refused, saying he was a cripple and had no reason to risk his life, until Han Xiaoxiao asked whether he was content to sink into depravity.

As Night Stars members faced Gu Gongming’s refusal to reconsider disbanding their squad, Commander Wang Canxin arrived with a revelation about the organization’s history. He began explaining that the accepted account of the Night Stars’ founding was false, leaving the group stunned by the claim that the world once had nearly a hundred countries.

• Gu Gongming angrily blamed Han Xiaoxiao for mocking him over his teammates’ deaths, and the two threatened each other until Qian Lan’s electric power stopped them.
• Gu Gongming dismissed the Night Stars members, but Wang Canxin arrived with Jian Luo and asked to speak with them.
• Wang Canxin questioned why the higher-ups were rushing to disband the squad and introduced the Gravekeepers, who watched over dead civilizations.
• Wang Canxin challenged the accepted history of the Night Stars, then claimed the world had nearly a hundred countries more than two hundred years earlier.
• Wang Canxin said repeated wars continued until around 1839, when Variants were born.

Wang Canxin revealed that the Night Star Organization had erased humanity’s true history and was recruiting Gravekeepers to protect its rule, then urged the group to help build a reformed organization. As everyone struggled to decide whether to believe him, a mass of scarlet flesh crashed through the ventilation duct.

• Gu Gongming challenged Wang Canxin’s account, but Jian Luo stopped him from interrupting.
• Wang Canxin explained that the five modern nations formed the Night Star Organization and destroyed the other countries, then concealed the truth about the Variants and the Tree of Terra.
• Wang Canxin revealed that the Gravekeepers guarded old-world artifacts and the Tree of Terra, and that the organization planned to make the group become Gravekeepers.
• Wang Canxin said the Light God Society had destroyed the Star God Group and disbanded the [Godslaying] Squad, prompting the upper echelons to recruit Gravekeepers to protect their power.
• Qian Lan asked why Wang Canxin had told them the truth, and he invited them to help create a Night Star Organization dedicated to protecting humanity.
• A mass of scarlet flesh burst through a ventilation duct and landed in the middle of the group.

Hela appeared before the group, announced she would kill them, and overpowered their attempts to fight back. After using the pill to learn how humans trigger an explosion, she blasted Han Xiaoxiao into unconsciousness and trapped Qian Lan in insulated tentacles.

• Hela transformed from a mass of flesh into a white-haired girl and declared she would kill the seven people while recording their conversation.
• Gu Gongming aimed his pistol at Hela, but a scarlet tentacle pierced him and left him hanging.
• Hela stopped Han Xiaoxiao's blade, decapitated the robot, and showed Han the pill she and her brother had used against her.
• Hela swallowed the pill, recreated its explosive effect with her own energy, and blasted Han Xiaoxiao into the wall, leaving her unconscious.
• Qian Lan attacked Hela with lightning, but Hela broke the current and trapped Qian Lan in glass-insulated tentacles.

Hela subdued Qian Lan and threw Xiao Liu from a hundred-meter building, then realized Jian Luo had used his ability to stop her from killing the others. Wang Canxin invoked their old deal and offered information in exchange for everyone’s lives, and Hela agreed to hear him out.

• Hela sealed Qian Lan inside a glass sphere and threw it into the night, then lifted Xiao Liu through a broken window and let her fall; Xiao Liu survived with a faint breath of life.
• Hela realized Jian Luo had used One Quarter’s ability to prevent her from killing the injured group and prepared to attack him.
• Wang Canxin reminded Hela of their deal and asked to use the favor, so Hela severed his left hand and ate the flesh to challenge his right to bargain.
• Wang Canxin proposed trading information for everyone’s lives, and Hela agreed to judge the information’s importance.

Hela learned the location of the Tree of Terra from Wang Canxin, who also warned her about a powerful Gravekeeper protecting it. Hela escaped as police and Night Stars arrived, leaving Wang Canxin to tell Li Hu that nothing had happened.

• Hela agreed to exchange information with Wang Canxin and learned that the Tree of Terra lay beneath the international Night Star headquarters in northwestern Europe at 52°N, 0°.
• Wang Canxin traded information for Hela keeping his conversation with Gu Gongming and the others secret, warning her that a Gravekeeper with Human Limit combat strength wielded [Soul Snatcher].
• Hela prepared to leave when police sirens sounded, then withdrew her tentacles and escaped through a ventilation duct.
• Li Hu rushed into the bloodied room and found Gu Gongming, Han Xiaoxiao, Jian Luo, and the injured Wang Canxin.
• Wang Canxin shook his head and told Li Hu, "Nothing... happened."

Aidan was released after police questioned him about a person falling from a building, and Hela took him to meet Tuote. On the way, she told him the Light God Society planned to destroy humanity, but promised her underlings would survive.

• Aidan told the officers he had been trying to get into a building to use the restroom when someone fell, and they released him after questioning.
• Hela met Aidan at the police station and dragged him outside, where he explained he had followed her, failed to get past security, and been arrested at the scene.
• Hela stole a taxi and took Aidan to see Tuote, who she expected to have found the information she needed.
• Aidan asked what the Light God Society planned to do, and Hela said it intended to destroy all of humanity.
• Hela told Aidan that her underlings and anyone he wanted to protect would be spared, while everyone else would die.

Tuote explained that the Soul Snatcher’s spirits could attack others but could not be harmed by ordinary means, and Aidan revealed he could see and cut souls. After Hela assigned Aidan to defeat the enemy guarding the Tree of Terra, Aidan learned the target was a Gravekeeper and left unsure whether he could fight the Night Stars.

• Tuote explained that the Soul Snatcher kept independent souls that could attack enemies but were difficult to fight directly.
• Aidan revealed that his pixel knife could cut souls and that he could see them.
• Hela asked Aidan to defeat the enemy, and he promised he would despite doubting his ability.
• Aidan asked who the target was, and Hela said he was a Gravekeeper guarding the Tree of Terra from the Light God Society.
• Tuote asked whether Aidan was reluctant to fight the Night Stars, and Aidan said he did not know before leaving.

After reuniting with Hela at the police station, Qin Fengfeng watched the footage Hela had secretly recorded and panicked over its damaging revelations. She discovered her report had gone viral, while readers reacted to photos of Gu Gongming with a missing hand.

• Qin Fengfeng complained that Hela had disappeared, and Hela gave her a grilled sausage before leading her out of the police station.
• Hela handed Qin Fengfeng the camera and explained that she had secretly filmed the people at the scene.
• After watching the footage, Qin Fengfeng panicked about exposing the deaths of the [Godslaying] Squad captains and the Special Extermination Squad's impending disbandment.
• Qin Fengfeng quit reporting and tried to flee, but a media company called to offer her a reporter job with a monthly salary of thirty-nine thousand.
• Qin Fengfeng's boss told her that her post had gone viral, and she saw comments discussing Gu Gongming's missing hand.

Hela helped Qin Fengfeng leave her old job and head to a new media company after her post drew official attention. Along the way, Hela’s detached hand encountered an elderly woman who told her about Sun Hai, a soldier who had died and been buried in a martyrs’ cemetery.

• Hela told Qin Fengfeng to quit her job and accept the new company’s offer, then agreed to go with her as her assistant.
• Qin Fengfeng rejected her boss’s offer of a raise and promotion, angrily insulted him, and fell asleep in the cab.
• Hela detached her hand from the car and let it fall onto the road, where it grew an eye and walked away on its fingers.
• A car sent Hela’s hand onto a crosswalk, where an elderly woman mistook it for a puppy and led it across the road.
• The woman told Hela’s hand that her former neighbor Sun Hai had died young and been buried in a martyrs’ cemetery before it disappeared.

Hela No. 2 formed from a severed hand and asked [X] to send her to Atan Country's capital with information on its stationed squads. At Night Star headquarters, Commander Qiao ordered Ailifa executed within a week and all records of the incident destroyed.

• Hela No. 2 transformed into a white-haired girl and discovered she had no tools, so she fashioned a metal spike from her body.
• Hela No. 2 stole a phone, contacted [X], and asked to be sent to Atan Country's capital with information on the squads stationed there.
• Ailifa told a Night Star interrogator that her squad had received a warning from the Fallen God Group, then encountered [Life] and two suspicious people; nearly everyone was killed.
• The interrogator reported Ailifa's account to Commander Qiao, including the deaths of two [Godslaying] Squad captains.
• Commander Qiao ordered Ailifa executed in one week and commanded that every record of the incident be destroyed.

Hela went to the Night Stars' headquarters intending to capture the girl Aidan had let escape and publish her account of the extermination, but her break-in triggered an alarm and brought a powerful pursuer. She injured the staff to slow him down and fled deeper into the building.

• Hela waited all day for a helper who never arrived, then decided to infiltrate the Night Stars' headquarters alone.
• Hela approached the headquarters, hypnotized the guards into opening the gate, and triggered an alarm when she entered the grounds.
• A man charged at Hela, and she threw the guards at him before smashing through the building's doors.
• Hela used bladed tentacles to injure staff and hurl them at her pursuer, then fled deeper into the headquarters while driving the uninjured staff to attack him.

Hela exploited Noah’s concern for the injured to escape and headed toward the center of headquarters, while Noah went to rescue Ailifa. As Ailifa ran to meet him, a hidden shooter killed her with a bullet to the head.

• Noah used wind to protect the injured and restrain the people Hela controlled, but Hela escaped while they distracted him by attacking the wounded.
• Hela destroyed nearby cameras and, realizing she could not search headquarters quickly, decided to head for its center.
• A woman in black arrived, and Noah told her the intruder was likely [Life], one of the [Five Calamities], before asking her to treat the injured.
• Noah rushed to Ailifa’s room and cut through the lock, then told her he had come to save her.
• Ailifa ran toward Noah, but a silent bullet from the shadows struck her head and killed her.

Commander Qiao killed Ailifa with a pistol that suppressed abilities and ordered Noah to attack [Life]. Hela was ambushed in the commander's office, where Qiao and his allies prepared to overwhelm her.

• Commander Qiao shot Ailifa dead, then told Noah he had destroyed the records of the incident and ordered him to attack [Life].
• Hela waited in the empty commander's office until Commander Qiao shot her, severing her arm and preventing it from regenerating.
• Commander Qiao entered through the window, introduced himself to Hela, and revealed that he had held back so his allies could join the attack.
• Noah entered with a wind blade, and a robot joined Commander Qiao as they surrounded Hela.

Hela confronted Commander Qiao and his Night Star team, using her ability to explode herself as leverage while demanding information about the girl who had escaped during their earlier fight. After Noah revealed what he knew, Hela recorded evidence of the Night Star base and announced she would destroy them, then detonated.

• Commander Qiao ordered Noah, the woman in black, and the robot to attack Hela, but they diverted their strikes after she threatened to blow everyone up.
• Hela detonated her severed arm, damaging the room and injuring the woman in black and the robot.
• Hela demanded the escaped girl, but Commander Qiao claimed he had killed her, so Hela demanded an account of what had happened.
• As Hela counted down, Noah defied Commander Qiao and told Hela what he knew about the events involving the Fallen God Group.
• Hela recorded Noah's testimony and the wrecked base, then photographed herself with the Night Star flag and threw her phone into the sky.
• Hela refused to leave and declared she would blow everyone up, then detonated.

Hela’s explosion destroyed Night Star headquarters, and Commander Qiao ordered Zige to execute Noah for betraying him. Noah buried Ailifa in the wasteland before Zige and a group of Night Stars confronted him, and he prepared to fight.

• Hela’s explosion devastated Night Star headquarters, while the robot shielded Commander Qiao and the woman in black escaped into the shadows.
• Commander Qiao learned that Noah had rescued people and fled carrying someone, then sentenced him to death and ordered Zige to carry it out.
• Noah walked through the wasteland carrying Ailifa’s corpse, grieving that he had failed to protect her.
• Noah buried Ailifa where her teammates had died and lamented whether the justice he upheld had been wrong.
• Zige arrived with more than ten powerful Night Stars, raised her saber against Noah, and said she would not hold back.
• Noah turned to face them and summoned two blades of wind from his palms.

Hela escaped Night Star surveillance and used a controlled man to travel to the airport, where [X] helped her post a video anonymously on the foreign internet. Later, Keke visited Qin Gucheng’s grave with Liu An and offerings, leaving the chapter with Keke telling Instructor Qin how well she had cared for his wife.

• Hela left the area around Night Star headquarters by controlling a young man and heading for the airport.
• called Hela and questioned why she had recorded and posted a video in Great Xia, then instructed her to publish it abroad without revealing their identities.
• With [X] guiding her, Hela posted the video under a virtual identity and learned that Qin Fengfeng’s old identity had been erased and replaced with a new one.
• Keke cleaned Qin Gucheng’s tombstone and stopped Liu An from eating the offerings intended for her husband.
• Keke placed flowers and food at Qin Gucheng’s grave, then told him she had helped Liu An settle into life in her city.

Keke visited Qin Gucheng’s grave, mourned her losses, and hoped her application to retire would be approved. Instead, she learned she had been selected for the Gravekeepers, while a news report revealed the aftermath of a Variant’s attack on Night Star headquarters in Atan Country.

• Keke cried at Qin Gucheng’s grave over her loneliness, her teammates’ deaths, and the strain of leading her squad, while Liu An comforted her.
• Keke left the cemetery with Liu An on a flying platform made from her metal Rubik’s cube and headed home.
• A messenger delivered Keke a notice promoting her to the Gravekeepers, and she learned she could not refuse the selection.
• Keke read about the Gravekeepers’ duties and benefits, rejected the offer, and burst into tears after the messenger left.
• A news report described a Variant’s invasion of Night Star headquarters in Atan Country and the deaths of a City A squad and the Godslaying Squad’s captain and vice captain.
• The report said the Fallen God Group had warned Night Star that one of the Five Calamities would visit its company and had requested the Godslaying Squad.

Wang Canxin’s hospitalized father lamented the Night Stars’ failure, while Qin Fengfeng recalled how her report exposing the deaths of two Human Limit fighters led to a crackdown that forced her into hiding. When danger reached her hotel room, Hela broke in and carried her out through a window.

• Wang Canxin’s father watched public outrage over the Night Stars’ failure and wondered how the organization had changed during his absence.
• Wang Canxin thanked his father, hinting that he knew why his father had ended up in the hospital, then offered him coffee.
• Qin Fengfeng remembered publishing Hela’s report about the deaths of two Human Limit fighters and how a confirmation video from Atan Country made the story undeniable.
• The Night Stars shut down the media company, and people connected to the report disappeared, while Hela got Qin Fengfeng out of City A and gave her a new identity.
• Hela smashed through Qin Fengfeng’s hotel window, grabbed her, and leaped out with her as Qin Fengfeng screamed in fear.